Re: [BProc] etherboot image

[steven j. <py...@li...>]

Greetings,

root=/dev/ram0 should do it.
G'day,
sjames


On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Andrew Shewmaker` wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm building a cluster with NICs already set to use DHCP
> and tftp to boot up.  I told beoboot to create a separate
> phase 2 kernel and ramdisk instead of single image, and
> then I used etherboot's mknbi-linux to make the tagged
> image these cards expect.
> 
> I know that the root filesystem is a tmpfs, but when the
> slave boots it says it mounted root (romfs readonly) and
> then it says it cannot open the root device "nfs" or 00:ff
> and finally it tells me to I need to append a correct
> "root=" option.
> 
> What would the correct one be?  I couldn't tell from
> /etc/beowulf/fstab
> 
> Thanks for any help,
> 
> Andrew
> 
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